Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-01-20
Death of Gen. VIM. B. Hazen, the
Chief Signal Officer.

Gen. W. B. Hazen, Chief Signal Officer
died at his home, in Washington City
Oh Sunday evening, from diabetis. Th'
General attended reception given b.
the President to the Diplomatic Corp:
on Thursday night, and contracted Sc
we're cold, which kept him to his bed OF
Friday. On Saturday be was better, be
ing out of bed. On Sunday morning hi;
physician was summoned and found the
General suffering from blood poison
arising from the disease, and although
all that skill could accomplish was re-
sorted to, to check the advancement oI
the disease, the gallant old warrior sue
cumbed to the inevitable in the evening
calmly and without suffering at the last
passing away.
Gen. VIM. Babcock Hazen was born at
West Hartford, Windsor county, Vt
september 81, 1880. and he was conse
quently 81 years old at the time of his
death. About the time he became of
age, having received good common
school educatioD,he entered West Point,
where he graduated with highest honors
in 1855. Entering the army as oreyet
second lieutenant, he joined his regi-
ment on the Pacific coast served through
the Indian troubles in Oregon, and in
1856 was promoted to first lieutenant in
the Eighth Infantry, and was ordered
to Texas. More Indian troubles con-
fronted him in Texas and New Mexico.
In a hand to hand encounter with Co.
manche brave he received several gun>
shot wounds, finally emerging from the
struggle victoriously. But his wounds
confined him for some time to his bed,
and while convalescent the citizens of
Texas presented him with a beautiful
sword for services rendered on the from
tier. The outbreak of the Rebellion
found him employed as professor of in>
fantry tactics at West Point, but, at his
urgent request to take the field. he was
given command of the Forty-6rst In
fantry, and stationed at Gallipols. in
this State. On January 6. 1862, he was
appointed to the com mand of the Nine'
teenth Brigade, Army of the Ohio
From this time on he did valiant ser
vice for the Union arms up to the close
of the war. At Pittsourg Landing, in
a daring charge at the head of his troops.
he captured two rebel batteries and
large, number of prisoners. He served
at the siege of Corinth and in Northern
Alabama, until ordered to take com
mand at Murfreesboro. His bravery at
Stone River won him the position of
brigadier general. At Chickamauga he
was ia the thickest of the fray, his COM
mand being the last to leave the field.
Transferred to the Army of the Tennes-
see in 1864, be was placed 10 command
of the Second Division of the Fifteenth
Army Corps, which he commanded on
the March to the Sea" and at the head
of which he stormed McAllister Here
he captured everything, garrison and
and for the courage and skill
here displayed he was made major gen.
eral. A few weeks later be was APP
pointed to the command of the entire
Fifteenth Army Corps, where be served
to the close of the war.
He was commissioned Colenel of the
regular infantry and af
terward of the Sixth, and during the
Russo Turkish war in 1867 he was U.
5. military attache at Vienna. On the
18th of December. 1880, he was appoint-
ed Chief Signal Officer with the rank of
General, and that position be
to hold until his death.